Kelley Holland

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Kelley Holland is a longtime business journalist who has covered everything from municipal bonds to management, major banks and MBA programs.

She created and wrote a monthly management column, "Under New Management," for The New York Times. Prior to writing her column, she was a business editor for The Times with responsibility for weekend business news and more. Earlier, she was an editor at Business Week, where one of her cover stories helped the magazine win a National Magazine Award for general excellence.

Prior to becoming a journalist, Holland was a securities analyst with Kidder, Peabody & Co., and a budget and fiscal analyst for the New York State Senate Finance Committee.

Holland has been a frequent guest on radio and television shows, most recently on PBS' "Frontline." She has also been a panelist at conferences sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Business Roundtable and New York Women in Communications.

Holland graduated with honors from Amherst College and received a master's degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management. She is a chartered financial analyst.